As much as we love watching our favorite wrestlers throw down in the ring and showcase their toughness, there’s just an unmatched charm in seeing your favorite grapplers, especially the ones known for being tough guys, let loose and have some fun, usually at the expense of an opponent.
These five wrestlers take that to the next level, creating some wickedly funny moments that live on in our hearts forever.
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1. The Kane-aroonie
Flash back to 2002. A series of explosive (literally) vignettes had been airing for weeks advertising the imminent return of The Big Red Machine, Kane, who had been off TV for several months. One particular episode of Monday Night RAW, August 16, 2002, Test of the UnAmericans was in the ring, preparing to light the American flag on fire with a blowtorch.
An explosion, a new take on a familiar theme song and a very different looking Kane. The reinvigorated Big Red Machine charged the ring, laid waste to the UnAmericans alongside Booker T, and then proceeded to shock the live audience and every person watching by busting out his own take on Booker’s signature Spin-a-roonie. And the even scarier part? It wasn’t half bad. Honorable Mention: Kane’s backstage promo with The Rock and “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan, and the birth of “Kanenites”
2. The Funkasaurus is born
There was something “off” about the debut of Brodus Clay. Previously known for a stint on NXT (back when NXT was just a novelty gimmick program) and for being Alberto Del Rio’s menacing hired muscle, Clay’s debut was noticeably disrupted. Again and again and again.
Multiple backstage segments were shot showing Clay preparing for his debut, only to be told that it would have to be bumped to next week for time constraints. Little did the audience know what they were in for.
Rather than the big menacing monster heel everyone was expecting, fans were greeted with a theme song that once belonged to the notoriously anti-monster-heel Earnest “The Cat” Miller. Complete with a mirror ball hanging overhead, sweet moves and a smile that lit up the entire arena, Brodus punctuated his debut by breaking the stunned silence of the live audience after his music stopped with, “Oh, y’all didn’t see THAT coming!”No, Brodus. No, we didn’t.
3. “Stone Cold” goes shopping with Booker T
One of the single funniest moments of the early “Brand Split” days was this. Having stuck his nose in Stone Cold’s business once too many times, Steve decided to track Booker T to the local supermarket.
With WWE Co-Owner’s Ric Flair and Mr. McMahon watching on from a live feed in the arena, Stone Cold proceeded to lay a competitively priced supermarket ass-whooping on Booker T in a hilarious segment that featured everything from milk chugging to baby powdering. Price check, on a jackass!
Honorable mention: Pretty much everything Austin did leading up the WCW/ECW Alliance days, as he got progressively more paranoid and erratic.
4. Perry Saturn loses his marbles
Perry Saturn has been away from the ring for a long time, so you’d be forgiven for forgetting that the man had serious chops in between the ropes. Perry Saturn made his name in ECW as one half of the Eliminators and was known for combining martial arts and a litany of suplexes to punish his foes. He was a bonafide asskicker.
He was also known for mixing it up in the WWF Hardcore division and you can only take so many shots to the noggin before something bad happens. In a storyline as hilarious as it is politically incorrect (and something that would NEVER EVER fly in today’s WWE), Perry Saturn would spend several weeks taking repeated bad shots to the head. Whether it was trash can lids, steel chairs or Test’s devastating boot, Saturn had his eggs scrambled over and over and over again. Until finally, we got the omelette. Perry would lose his marbles and begin acting increasingly more erratic. It began with the eyes crossing and nonsensical verbal utterances, such as “The blue crayons are for fiber!” and “YOU’RE WELCOME”, which Damien Sandow would gleefully steal many years later. As the headshots got worse, so did Perry. Soon, he was telling D-Von Dudley to get the muffins and he would go on to dump Terri Runnels for a mop. God bless you, Perry Saturn.
5. Heidenreich and Michael Cole become BFFs
Okay, there’s no way around it. Heidenreich was just weird. He was bizarre and he made everyone uncomfortable and he made you want to take a shower more than he scared you.
Still, he was a tough hombre. Tough enough to repeatedly cost The Undertaker the World Heavyweight Championship. Though that feud didn’t end well for Heidenreich, his short lived tenure as a big cat who was a couple fries short of a Happy Meal led to one of the most unintentionally hilarious, uncomfortable, suggestive, downright disturbing segments in WWE history (right up there with Snitsky punting the baby doll!)In a segment that, to this day, can’t be explained or justified by anybody anywhere, Heidenreich would abduct Michael Cole from the announcer’s table and carry him over his shoulder backstage. Into a bathroom that had weird homicide lighting. He would pin the wayward announcer up against the wall, from behind, and read him a poem.
And then the whole world collectively took a shower at the same time.
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